Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rice!rice!sun-spots-request From: preston@ra.src.umd.edu (James Preston) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: f77 floating point exceptions opn SS1 4.0.3 Keywords: Miscellaneous Message-ID: <1990Aug16.000008.7986@rice.edu> Date: 14 Aug 90 14:41:37 GMT Sender: sun-spots-request@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 9 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Originator: spots@titan.rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 308, message 5 We are using f77 on Sparcstations (OS4.0.3) and are quite often getting the message: Floating point errors ocurred... Inexact; Underflow; It seems that these are spurious messages, but then we are in a "Boy who cried wolf" situation which is not very reassuring. Is anyone else having this problem?